Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

My personal take on ChoicePoint from 2001:

   http://tinyurl.com/fhfm7

Richard

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http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110248,00
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Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract
Leahy wants to know why DOJ's still doing business with breached firm

News Story by Grant Gross

APRIL 05, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A top Democrat in the U.S. Senate 
questioned Wednesday why the U.S. Department of Justice continues to do 
business with data broker ChoicePoint Inc. a year after the company 
announced a data breach potentially affecting 145,000 U.S. residents.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) blasted the DOJ and the FBI division for a 
recent five-year, $12 million contract for ChoicePoint to provide 
investigative analysis software to the FBI. In February 2005, 
ChoicePoint announced a data breach after criminals set up fake 
businesses that purchased private information from the data broker.

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